Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.
Richard LinklaterSomething about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard LinklaterAs a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
Richard LinklaterI'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.
Richard LinklaterI think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
Richard Linklater